The Democratic Party used to be the party of blue collar America- supporting laws and policies that benefitted that segment of the U.S. population. Their leaders may still claim to be advocates for American working families, however their duplicitous actions that betray American workers and their families, while undermining national security and public safety, provide clear and incontrovertible evidence of their lies…. MICHAEL CUTLER …FRONTPAGE mag

During the past ten years 84 California hospitals have declared bankruptcy
and closed their Emergency Rooms forever. Financially crippled by
legislative and judicial mandates to treat illegal aliens have
bankrupted hospitals! In 2010, in Los Angeles County alone, over
2 million illegal aliens recorded visits to county emergency rooms for both
routine and emergency care. Per official figures, the cost is
$1,000 dollars for every taxpayer in Los Angeles County.

“Californians bear an enormous fiscal
burden as a result of an illegal alien population estimated at almost 3 million
residents. The annual expenditure of state and local tax dollars on services
for that population is $25.3 billion. That total amounts to a yearly burden of
about $2,370 for a household headed by a U.S. citizen.”

“Until the dishonesty
and tactical bluster cease, California is at serious risk of becoming a Third
World entity, and the longer Democrats are in power, the more businesses will
continue to flee the state, the more wealthy taxpayers will relocate and the
more our standard of living will continue to decline.”

Opinion

California
must stem the flow of illegal immigrants

The
state should go after employers who hire them, curb taxpayer-funded benefits,
deploy the National Guard to help the feds at the border and penalize
'sanctuary' cities.
“Illegal immigration is another matter entirely. With the state budget in
tatters, millions of residents out of work and a state prison system strained
by massive overcrowding, California simply cannot continue to ignore the strain
that illegal immigration puts on our budget and economy. Illegal aliens cost
taxpayers in our state billions of dollars each year. As economist Philip J. Romero concluded in a 2007 study, "illegal
immigrants impose a 'tax' on legal California residents in the tens of billions
of dollars."

Low-Income Workers Fleeing California

Wall Street Journal reporter Allysia Finley on low-income
people fleeing California, in addition to the rich.

That total includes 476 illegal aliens (23%) who had re-entered the United
States after previously being deported, federal officials said Monday at a joint press conference by ICE and the Department of Homeland
Security.

*

Of the 2,059 criminals arrested, 1,013 -- almost half -- had been convicted
of more than one crime; and 1,036 had been convicted of a felony, including
voluntary manslaughter, child pornography, robbery and kidnapping.

*

Of the total 2,059 criminals arrested, 58 are known gang members or affiliates,
and 89 are convicted sex offenders.

*

An additional 912 illegal aliens were arrested for multiple
"significant misdemeanors," mostly repeated convictions for driving
under the influence.

“Until lawmakers end the catch-and-release
policies of the Obama administration,” said Jessica Vaughan of the Center for
Immigration Studies, “any infrastructure improvements, new strategies, and
better metrics are pointless.”

LA RAZA LOOTS! By invitation of the Democrat
Party!

Similarly, from
2008-2011, employers made over 4,000 E-Verify inquiries using nearly

3,900 social
security numbers belonging to people who were born prior to June, 1901.

“While the Obama
Administration downplays violence along the U.S.-Mexico border, authorities in
Texas reveal that Mexicanhave
transformed parts of the state into a war zone where shootings, beheadings,
kidnappings and murders are common.

The state of Missouri executed 74 year-old Cecil Clayton Tuesday night, after a more than a three-hour delay while his appeals were considered. Clayton was put to death despite overwhelming evidence of his intellectual disability caused by a sawmill accident more than four decades ago.

“The world will not be a safer place because Mr. Clayton has been executed,” Elizabeth Unger Carlyle, one of his lawyers, said in a statement. She said putting Clayton to death without a mental competency hearing violated US and state law, “and basic human dignity.”

Capital punishment and the brutality of class rule in America

20 March 2015

The latest abomination in a US death chamber took place on Tuesday night in Missouri when Cecil Clayton, 74, was injected and killed with a single dose of pentobarbital. The condemned inmate was executed despite overwhelming evidence of his intellectual disability.

In 1972, Clayton was working in a lumberyard when a piece of wood broke off the sawmill and struck him in the head. Surgeons were forced to excise a fifth of his frontal lobe—the area of the brain that controls judgment, inhibition and impulsive behavior—to remove shards of bone that had pierced deep into his brain.

The accident had a shattering impact on Clayton’s life. The former devoted husband and father developed severe memory loss and began to suffer from hallucinations and paranoia.

A quarter century later, Clayton was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1996 murder of a Missouri sheriff’s deputy. He remained on death row for nearly two decades as his appeals worked through the legal system. Numerous psychiatric exams revealed that the condemned prisoner had diminished intellectual capacity, social functioning deficits and dementia.

But Missouri authorities were determined to see this intellectually disabled man put to death, despite his inability to comprehend “the nature and purpose of the punishment about to be imposed on him,” as required by Missouri law. Clayton’s attorneys’ pleas for mercy fell on deaf ears. The Missouri Supreme Court denied his right to a competency hearing, Governor Jay Nixon (the same man who ordered out the National Guard against protests in Ferguson, Missouri last year) denied him clemency, and the US Supreme Court denied a last-minute petition for a stay of execution.

Disturbingly, a complete record of the horrors of America’s death row is too long to list here, but include the following:

March 2, 2015: Kelly Renee Gissendaner came within hours of death for the second time in less than a week when her “execution team” in Georgia said the drugs to be used in her lethal injection “appeared cloudy.” Gissendaner, who had only an indirect role in the murder for which she was convicted, clearly turned her life around in prison. Her new execution date has yet to be scheduled.
July 23, 2014: Arizona inmate Joseph Wood was subjected to a nearly two-hour lethal injection procedure utilizing untested drugs. According to a witness description: “He gulped like a fish on land. The movement was like a piston: The mouth opened, the chest rose, the stomach convulsed.”

April 29, 2014: Clayton D. Lockett suffered an agonizing execution after being injected with an untested lethal concoction of three drugs. The Oklahoma death row inmate shook uncontrollably, gritted his teeth, and mumbled 15 minutes into the gruesome procedure. Authorities called off the execution, but Lockett died 45 minutes after it had begun.

Millions of people in the US and internationally have been rightfully shocked and outraged by these horrifying spectacles repeated time and again on America’s death row. But the overwhelming response of state authorities, the courts at every level, and the federal government is to do whatever is necessary to keep the state-sanctioned killing machine in operation.

The death penalty is defended at the highest levels of the government and the judiciary, from the Supreme Court to the Obama administration and both big-business parties. Since the US Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976 after a brief hiatus, it has consistently ruled to uphold the constitutionality of capital punishment. While ruling the execution of the intellectually disabled and those sentenced for crimes committed as juveniles unconstitutional, the court has repeatedly upheld the death penalty itself.

And despite the ruling barring execution of the intellectually disabled, the justices have rarely halted an execution on this basis. Indeed, in the killing of the clearly mentally disabled Clayton, one senses that the state decided a certain principle was at stake: the principle of unlimited and unchecked power. It killed because it could, and wanted to make clear that it would.

The barbaric practice of capital punishment is only one expression of the violent and criminal character of the American state. Police officers who kill unarmed people are immune from prosecution, while America’s prisons are packed with two million human beings, more than any other country in the world.

These are all symptoms of a deeply diseased society, corrupted through and through by social inequality and the aristocratic principle that the wealthy and powerful can do whatever they want, while the poor and powerless are to be humiliated and degraded.

Italian philosopher Cesare Beccaria, a leading figure of the Enlightenment, wrote on the death penalty in his widely influential treatise On Crimes and Punishments in 1764:

“What must men think, when they see wise magistrates and grave ministers of justice, with indifference and tranquility, dragging a criminal to death, and whilst a wretch trembles with agony, expecting the fatal stroke, the judge, who has condemned him, with the coldest insensibility, and perhaps with no small gratification from the exertion of his authority, quits his tribunal to enjoy the comforts and pleasures of life?”

Reading these words, one can envision the black-robed Supreme Court Justices as they deny stays of execution, the governors who refuse to grant clemency or pardons, and the execution teams in prisons injecting concocted lethal mixtures into the condemned veins. One can also picture President Obama in the White House situation room drafting his “kill list” of those targeted for drone assassinations.
The continued practice of capital punishment is at odds with the democratic conceptions held by the early American leaders, including James Madison and Thomas Jefferson. Madison, key in drafting the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights, a death penalty opponent, wrote: “I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment by any State willing to make it.” Jefferson opined that the notion of “an eye for an eye” was a “revolting principle.”

The opposition of Jefferson and Madison to capital punishment was based on the Enlightenment principle of hostility and opposition to arbitrary state violence, which was associated with the Ancien Régime and the feudal aristocracy of Europe.

Some two-and-a-half centuries later, the current political establishment’s support for state-sanctioned killing speaks volumes about the decayed state of class rule in 21st century America. The criminal character of the state is an expression of the class whose interests it represents: the corporate and financial oligarchy, whose wealth is derived from swindling and speculation, standing on top of a society riven by historically unprecedented levels of inequality.

"Any tightening of the central bank spigot of virtually free credit threatens to bring the record bull market, and the windfalls for the rich and the super-rich provided by astronomical stock prices, crashing down."

Obama’s State of Delusion

22 January 2015

“The delusional character of Obama’s State of
the Union address on Tuesday—presenting an America of rising living standards
and a booming economy, capped by his declaration that the “shadow of crisis has
passed”—is perhaps matched only in its presentation by the media and supporters
of the Democratic Party.”

“The general tone was set by the New York
Times in its lead editorial on Wednesday, which described the speech as a
“simple, dramatic message about economic fairness, about the fact that the
well-off—the top earners, the big banks, Silicon Valley—have done just great,
while middle and working classes remain dead in the water.”

“The summary of the proposal read: “Eliminates
constitutional protections for vested pension and retiree healthcare benefits
for current public employees, including teachers, nurses, and peace officers,
for future work performed.”

THE OBAMA PLAN: AS GENERATED FROM THE

ASSAULT OF DETROIT BY OBAMA’S CRONIES: CUT

PENSIONS, AND WAGES AND BUILD THE
MEX

WELFARE STATE AT THE SAME TIME!

“The assault on pensions enjoys the bipartisan support of
the entire political establishment, all the way to the White House. Behind the
scenes, the Obama Administration played a decisive role in pushing through the
Detroit bankruptcy.”

THE DEMOCRAT PARTY HAS, WHILE THE GOP
WATCHED, TURNED AMERICAN INTO MEXICO’S JOBS, WELFARE AND DRUG MARKET.

The percentage of foreign-born
workers in the U.S. labor force has more than tripled over the last four
decades and while the U.S. represents just 5 percent of the world’s population
it attracts 20 percent of the world’s immigrants, according to a new report.

That total includes 476 illegal aliens (23%) who had re-entered the United
States after previously being deported, federal officials said Monday at a joint press conference by ICE and the Department of Homeland
Security.

*

Of the 2,059 criminals arrested, 1,013 -- almost half -- had been convicted
of more than one crime; and 1,036 had been convicted of a felony, including
voluntary manslaughter, child pornography, robbery and kidnapping.

*

Of the total 2,059 criminals arrested, 58 are known gang members or affiliates,
and 89 are convicted sex offenders.

*

An additional 912 illegal aliens were arrested for multiple
"significant misdemeanors," mostly repeated convictions for driving
under the influence.

“Until lawmakers end the catch-and-release
policies of the Obama administration,” said Jessica Vaughan of the Center for
Immigration Studies, “any infrastructure improvements, new strategies, and
better metrics are pointless.”

LA RAZA LOOTS! By invitation of the Democrat
Party!

Similarly, from
2008-2011, employers made over 4,000 E-Verify inquiries using nearly

3,900 social
security numbers belonging to people who were born prior to June, 1901.

Illegals
cheat, distribute drugs, lie, forge documents, steal and kill as if it’s a
normal way of life.

US stocks surge as Fed signals slower rise in interest rates

By Barry Grey 19 March 2015

US stock and bond prices rose sharply Wednesday in response to signals from the Federal Reserve's policy-making Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) that interest rate hikes might be delayed and will likely be smaller than previously indicated once they begin.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average, which was down 124 points when the Fed issued its policy statement at 2 PM, immediately jumped nearly 250 points and ended the trading day up by 227 points (1.27 percent) over the previous day’s close. The total swing in points pre- and post-FOMC statement was more than 350.

The other major indexes, the Standard & Poor’s 500 and the Nasdaq, registered similarly hefty gains for the day.

Banks, hedge funds and global speculators were nervously anticipating that the FOMC would drop the assurance from its two previous statements that it could be “patient” in beginning to raise the Fed’s benchmark federal funds rate, which has remained at zero-to-0.25 percent since the height of the world financial crisis in December of 2008.

Any tightening of the central bank spigot of virtually free credit threatens to bring the record bull market, and the windfalls for the rich and the super-rich provided by astronomical stock prices, crashing down.

In the event, the Fed did remove the word “patient” from the statement it issued at the conclusion of its two-day meeting. But it included new language making clear there would be no change at the FOMC’s April meeting and seeming to set the bar higher for beginning to raise interest rates later in the year.

Even more significantly, the Fed issued a new set of estimates for the federal funds rate by the end of 2015, 2016 and 2017 that were sharply lower than the estimates it released last December. The US central bank forecast a rate of 0.625 percent at the end of this year, a drop of 500 basis points, or more than 40 percent, from its December projection of 1.125 percent.

Such a difference in rates can mean billions of dollars in increased profits for bankers and big investors.

The Fed has come under intense pressure from financial interests and major US corporations to slow down its plans to begin raising rates from their record lows to more normal levels. This pressure has intensified along with the sharp increase in the value of the dollar, which has risen, on a trade-weighted basis, by more than 22 percent since last July.

The upward spiral of the dollar is partly the result of the divergence of US monetary policy from that of Europe and Japan. While the Fed has for months been signaling an intension to gradually raise US rates and recently ended its money-printing “quantitative easing” operation, the European Central Bank and the central bank of Japan have been slashing their rates and launching their own “quantitative easing” bond-buying programs. As a result, capital has flowed into the US seeking higher rates, pushing up the dollar.

At the last FOMC meeting at the end of January, the Fed was besieged by complaints from major US corporations, including Microsoft, Caterpillar, DuPont, Procter & Gamble and United Technologies, that its talk of raising rates was undermining their export sales and profits by making the dollar, and their goods, more expensive on world markets. That meeting provoked a sharp sell-off on US markets, because Wall Street and corporate America felt the FOMC statement did not contain a sufficiently strong signal that any increase in rates would be delayed at least until the latter part of the year.

That there has been no let-up in corporate lobbying against an early rate hike was demonstrated by the front-page lead article in Wednesday’s Financial Times, bearing the headline “Fed rate rise risks 1937-style market slump, says fund chief.” The entire content of the article was a warning issued by hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio that a Fed rate increase could crash the stock market.

The markets appeared to be somewhat surprised and delighted to see, based on the statement issued by the FOMC on Wednesday, that their message had been received. The committee’s statement began with a dramatically more somber economic assessment than that made following its January meeting. At that time, the Fed spoke of “solid growth.” Wednesday’s statement began: “Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in January suggests that economic growth has moderated somewhat.”

The statement went on to characterize household spending as rising only “moderately” and describe the housing sector as “slow.” Indirectly referencing the upwardly valued dollar, it noted that “export growth has weakened.”

It then acknowledged that inflation “has declined further below the Committee’s longer-run objective, largely reflecting declines in energy prices.”

New economic projections released by the Fed at the same time as the FOMC statement underscored the central bank’s negatively revised view of the US economy. The Fed downgraded its projection for growth of the gross domestic product by the end of this year from 2.6 percent-3.0 percent to 2.3 percent-2.7 percent. It projected that consumer price inflation in the fourth quarter would by only 0.6 percent-0.8 percent, well below its already low December forecast of 1.0 percent-1.6 percent.

A series of economic reports over the past week suggest that the US economy may be slowing even more dramatically. Retail sales have fallen for three consecutive months. Industrial production barely grew in February, after shrinking in December and January. Manufacturing has declined for three months in a row. And housing starts fell 17 percent in February from the previous month.

Underlying the continuing stagnation in the real economy, despite the officially hyped “recovery,” is the devastating social crisis and decline in the living standards of millions of working people. The boom in stock prices and corporate profits is based largely on speculative activities divorced from any serious growth of the productive forces. Thus, while the official unemployment rate has declined to 5.5 percent, most of the new jobs created since the 2008 Wall Street crash have been low-paying, part-time or temporary.

There are presently 6.6 million part-timers who want to work full-time but can’t find full-time jobs—nearly 50 percent more than in 2007, before the recession began.
These conditions explain the depressed state of consumer spending, including home-buying, which makes impossible any sustained economic growth.

The signs of stagnation and slowdown in the US economy tend to mitigate against an early rise in interest rates. Of particular importance is the Fed’s insistence that inflation must show signs of moving toward the central bank’s target rate of 2 percent before it will begin raising rates.

Under conditions of stagnant growth internationally and continuing slump in the real US economy, as opposed to the financial markets, there is no sign of this happening any time soon. According to the Fed’s preferred gauge, prices rose just 0.2 percent over the past 12 months. Inflation was minus 0.2 percent in January.

The key paragraph in the FOMC statement that set off a buying spree on the stock market was the following:

“Consistent with its previous statement, the Committee judges that an increase in the target range for the federal fund rate remains unlikely at the April FOMC meeting. The Committee anticipates that it will be appropriate to raise the target range for the federal funds rate when it has seen further improvement in the labor market and is reasonably confident that inflation will move back to its 2 percent objective over the medium term. This change in the forward guidance does not indicate that the Committee has decided on the timing of the initial increase in the target range.” [Emphasis added].

In a letter to clients, Dan Greenhaus, chief strategist at BTIG, pointed to this paragraph as lowering the chances of a rate hike in June. “What’s important about this part of the statement is that it clearly says the FOMC is looking for ‘further’ improvement, meaning the economy and labor market have not yet met whatever criteria necessary to warrant a rate hike.”

In her press conference following the release of the FOMC statement, Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen sought to further reassure Wall Street that any rate increase would likely be delayed to the latter part of the year. While not ruling out an increase at the June meeting of the FOMC, she said, “Dropping ‘patient’ from the statement does not mean we are going to be impatient” in deciding when to move.

BARACK OBAMA HAS SQUANDERED BILLIONS ANDBILLIONS PROTECTING THE BORDERS OF MUSLIM DICTATORS AS HE DAILY SABOTAGED HOMELAND SECURITY AND BORDERS WITH NARCOMEX!

Obama, significantly, has made no threat to veto budget proposals imposing spending caps on vital social services. Indeed, while traveling the country touting relatively minor programs that are likely to be trimmed or eliminated in budget negotiations with the Republican congressional leadership, his administration is proposing to implement some $400 billion in cuts to future Medicare and Medicaid spending, even as he seeks to slash corporate tax rates by up to 10 percent.Obama’s State of Delusion

22 January 2015

“The delusional character of Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday—presenting an America of rising living standards and a booming economy, capped by his declaration that the “shadow of crisis has passed”—is perhaps matched only in its presentation by the media and supporters of the Democratic Party.”

“The general tone was set by the New York Times in its lead editorial on Wednesday, which described the speech as a “simple, dramatic message about economic fairness, about the fact that the well-off—the top earners, the big banks, Silicon Valley—have done just great, while middle and working classes remain dead in the water.”

“While the economy added an estimated 248,000 jobs and the official unemployment rate fell from 6.1 to 5.9 percent, these headline figures hide a more fundamental reality. Six years after the financial collapse of 2008, the labor market remains stagnant and an increasing portion of the population has simply given up hope of ever finding work.”